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Almost everyone knows the feeling: you finish a perfectly normal meal, and within half an hour your waistband feels two sizes smaller, your stomach looks puffed up, and you are uncomfortable in a way that is hard to explain to anyone who has not felt it. Gas and bloating after eating are among the most…
If you have ever eaten at an Indian restaurant in the US, you may have noticed the small bowl of candy-coated seeds by the register. Those are fennel seeds, and the custom behind them is older than the restaurant itself: chewing a small spoonful of fennel after a meal to help digestion and freshen the…
It is 11 p.m., your tooth is throbbing, and the dentist’s office does not open until morning. This is the exact situation where clove has earned its centuries-old reputation. Long before modern dentistry, clove was the go-to remedy for tooth pain — and dentists themselves used clove oil (and still use its active ingredient in…
Here is the problem with mouthwash: it works for about 20 minutes. You swish, you get that sharp minty blast, and then — often before you have even reached the meeting, date or job interview you were preparing for — the bad breath quietly returns. That is because mouthwash mostly perfumes the problem. Bad breath,…
